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You are entitled to your opinion. I was merely pointing out that he could not have known that there was no other shooter which makes your original comment regarding his portraying any sort of leadership skills invalid. Now your latest comment, in an attempt to make his actions seem quite ordinary under the circumstances, has him wedged between agents yelling fight which obviously in your opinion has him trying to take advantage of a photo op seconds after his attempted assassin. Well I guess we can at least agree that he had the presence of mind, after being almost killed, to do either. Have a nice day with your TDS.

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The Secret Service would not have let him up if it wasn't clear. Or, they shouldn't have. Someone would have told him.

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Well you would like to think so but the incompetence that day was real.

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I'm not saying that Trump's response wasn’t courageous. It was. He had just been shot at and barely survived, coming up from a pile-on. Anyone saying that's a walk in the park is a fool.

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The sniper had a clear shot for 3 minutes he said. Per eyewitness that's the time Crooks was on the roof. Sniper can't take a shot without approval which did not come. That's because nobody had taken a shot at a presidential candidate in a long time. And, think about it. It's a Trump rally. Shooting the guy without a shot fired would have handed Dems raw meat.

When the shooter fired, it took ~0.6 second for the sniper to hear it. It took 0.15 second for the sniper bullet to hit Crooks head. Crooks was firing for 2 seconds. So in 1.25 seconds the sniper smoothly squeezed his trigger. That's decision, and finish squeeze.

Normally snipers take 2-6 seconds to pull a trigger. From these basic facts, we know that the sniper had Crooks targeted and had pulled his trigger part way.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

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Agreed.

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